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so far completed as to be suitable for the occasion. The earth floor, spread with a blanket, sufficed for a table and the seats were of oriental style.
The year of 1855 had been a year of calamity, famine and distress. The crops in this part of the territory had for two seasons been destroyed by the ravages of the grasshoppers. Many families were short of bread. Children and parents alike were poorly fed. Clothing was exceedingly scarce, so much so, that in some instances part of a family would have to sit up at night to keep a fire while others occupied the scanty bedding and slept.
The labors of the colonists had scarcely begun when some misunderstanding arose with the Indians. The settlers, in order to avoid serious trouble, returned to Parowan about the last of February. A council was held with the Indians and the difficulty satisfactorily settled. Most of the colonists returned with reinforcements. The Babbit contingent arrived from the North in April and no furthur difficulties occured in respect to Indians at that time.
The land that was surveyed, sixteen ten-acre lots, was awarded by casting lots. The southeast corner ten-acres fell to Ross R. Rogers. He seeded part of it to wheat and soon as possible made a small ditch to the river, taking out the water about where the Parkinson house now stands. This land, however, was superceded the year previous (1855) by Thompson and Tyler who came from Fillmore and seeded a few acres to wheat on the ground now owned by J. H. Cartwright. The water was taken from the south bank directly onto the land, in July of that year. This was experimental but suggested because of the distruction of the crops in Fillmore by the grasshoppers. They had passed through this valley and reached the Parowan field in the fall of 1854, and deposited their eggs there. The new crop of pests destroyed the fields in 1855. From about twelve hundred acres, only 19 bushels of wheat survived the ravages.

so far completed as to be suitable for the occasion. The earth floor, spread with a blanket, sufficed for a table and the seats were of oriental style.
The year of 1855 had been a year of calamity, famine and distress. The crops in this part of the territory had for two seasons been destroyed by the ravages of the grasshoppers. Many families were short of bread. Children and parents alike were poorly fed. Clothing was exceedingly scarce, so much so, that in some instances part of a family would have to sit up at night to keep a fire while others occupied the scanty bedding and slept.
The labors of the colonists had scarcely begun when some misunderstanding arose with the Indians. The settlers, in order to avoid serious trouble, returned to Parowan about the last of February. A council was held with the Indians and the difficulty satisfactorily settled. Most of the colonists returned with reinforcements. The Babbit contingent arrived from the North in April and no furthur difficulties occured in respect to Indians at that time.
The land that was surveyed, sixteen ten-acre lots, was awarded by casting lots. The southeast corner ten-acres fell to Ross R. Rogers. He seeded part of it to wheat and soon as possible made a small ditch to the river, taking out the water about where the Parkinson house now stands. This land, however, was superceded the year previous (1855) by Thompson and Tyler who came from Fillmore and seeded a few acres to wheat on the ground now owned by J. H. Cartwright. The water was taken from the south bank directly onto the land, in July of that year. This was experimental but suggested because of the distruction of the crops in Fillmore by the grasshoppers. They had passed through this valley and reached the Parowan field in the fall of 1854, and deposited their eggs there. The new crop of pests destroyed the fields in 1855. From about twelve hundred acres, only 19 bushels of wheat survived the ravages.